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Remixing Composition

Remixing Composition

A History of Multimodal Writing Pedagogy

by Jason Palmeri
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/03/2012

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Jason Palmeri's Remixing Composition: A History of Multimodal Writing Pedagogy challenges the longheld notion that the study and practice of composition has historically focused on words alone. Palmeri revisits many of the classic texts of composition theory from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, closely examining how past compositionists responded to 'new media.' He reveals that long before the rise of personal computers and the graphic web, compositionists employed analog multimedia technologies in the teaching of composition. Palmeri discovers these early scholars anticipated many of our current interests in composing with visual, audio, and video texts. Using the concept of the remix, Palmeri outlines practical pedagogical suggestions for how writing teachers can build upon this heritage with digital activities, assignments, and curricula that meet the needs of contemporary students. He details a pluralist vision of composition pedagogy that explains the ways that writing teachers can synthesize expressivist, cognitive, and social-epistemic approaches. Palmeri reveals an expansive history of now forgotten multimodal approaches to composing moving images and sounds and demonstrates how current compositionists can productively remix these past pedagogies to address the challenges and possibilities of the contemporary digital era. A strikingly original take on the recent history of composition, Remixing Composition is an important work for the future of writing instruction in a digital age.
ISBN:
9780809330898
9780809330898
Category:
Language teaching & learning (other than ELT)
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-03-2012
Publisher:
Southern Illinois University Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
216
Dimensions (mm):
216x140x15mm
Weight:
0.26kg

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